Robuchon caps $385 tasting menu with Coke

Ray Sokolov of the Wall Street Journal got to watch as Joel Robuchon put together the spring tasting menu for his Las Vegas restaurant. The piece de resistance:

This tribute to Mr. Robuchon’s beloved Coke consists of a ginger mousse, an ice made from vodka and Coke and something dark, a bubble of Coca-Cola gelée crowned with gold. It’s a grandiose joke, but Mr. Robuchon goes a giant step further. Somehow he takes the world’s most famous industrial flavor and transmogrifies it into a high culinary essence — still recognizably Coke, but also something way beyond.